How dare they?

  • cuchi@startrek.website
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    15 hours ago

    Imagine they looking other Star Trek series thinking they are family friendly and see The Naked Now episode.

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    2 days ago

    If I’m not the target audience it’s bad. No one else should enjoy the franchise I like in a way I don’t want to

    Is such a bizarrely stupid stance to take.

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      13 hours ago

      I think it’s less “I’m not the target audience” and more if you’re going to do a Star Trek [insert genre/target audience] show, do it right.

      It’s certainly possible to create an intelligent pre-school show that isn’t painful for adults to watch. Take Bluey, for instance. Toddlers love that show, but it also has a cult following among the adults that watch it with their kids, and the style doesn’t look like every single other kids television series on the air.

      In comparison, Scouts has a cheap-looking generic style I’ve seen before, and the plots we’ve seem are absolutely brain-dead and superficial. Sure, maybe we don’t need the kids to talk at length about the subspace plasma inverter matrix manifolds or whatever, but that doesn’t mean the show can’t be more than just bright colors and barely coherent plots. It just doesn’t do any justice whatsoever to what Star Trek is.

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        11 hours ago

        Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.

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      1 day ago

      It is wild to see the entitlement of some segments of the fanbase. These people would shit and piss their pants if they were comic book fans.

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    2 days ago

    I watched… I have no idea what to say as I don’t have or know any pre-schoolers.

    I usually dislike “back in my day” comments, but when I was a pre-schooler I watched TNG. Did I understand anything? Not at all. Did it instill a lifelong love of the franchise? Possibly.

    Prodigy was an excellent show, I guess it’s also “for kids” but older ones, I thoroughly enjoyed it as an adult. Scouts, from what I can tell from those 8 bizarre minutes, is more at the level of Discovery in terms of quality of writing.

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    2 days ago

    More evidence that the current showrunners have no idea what to do with the franchise.

    Next: a Trek-themed cooking show.

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        12 hours ago

        I mean I would. But I think Riker is the kind of guy that makes breakfast the morning after, sans replicator - for that personal touch. So I think he’d have no trouble scrambling some eggs.

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      2 days ago

      While I personally have no interest in watching a youtube show for three year olds, as a new uncle, I hope the show will be a good entry point into the franchise for my niblings once they’re old enough to get something out of it.

      As for a cooking show, don’t threaten me with a good time. Let’s see Latinum Chef Romulus’ reaction when the challenge ingredient is leola root.

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        12 hours ago

        You guys are all imaging good shows that stick with the established characters and don’t retcon the universe, your imaginations are far better than what would actually be created.

        The most exotic and amusing chef on the show - Neelix, would be absent. Data is back and well (no explanation offered) and cooks up a plate of synthetic oil, writers not knowing he can taste and wants to study and be part of human culture and make things his friends can also enjoy. Tilly has a meltdown because she’s done the recipe wrong and everything’s burnt - everyone who tries to help her also cries, but then they come together, “actually it’s even better burnt”.

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    2 days ago

    Exec: We need to sell products but our audience are all over 30 and are swimming in debt.